It seems no matter how big and fast my pc is, it still gets slowed down by all the stuff it has to do.
I’m thinking that it would be great to have a second pc that runs as a background processor.
If you’re not quite sure what I am talking about, read on…
I wouldn’t access the background computer via keyboard and mouse except for configuration and maintenance.
I’m looking for software that might do this, suggestions from anyone who might have done this, and any gotcha’s — of which I’ll bet there are many.
If I were to set this up without any suggestions from other or software to assist, I think I would set up the second computer to do things like:
1. Set the background computer to run the backup software.
2. Set the background computer to do the indexing on the main computer for searches, etc. (I think I could do this by setting the background computer to only index the main computer disks and then setting the main computer to not index (as opposed to disabling indexing).
3. Receive email for outlook (I guess this would require installing Outlook on both computers, “pointing” the background computer to the pst files on the main computer and set it to do the send and receives – Then set the outlook on the main computer to never automatically send and receive.
4. What else??
THERE IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT APPROACH:
That would be to simply run some applications on one computer and some on the main computer. This would require a level of integration that I have not seen:
Being able to drag an item from one desktop to the desktop on the other computer.
IT SEEMS TO ME that using one computer as a background processor would be easier to manage than having a desktop for each computer and dragging stuff back and forth.
